I will take this opportunity to note that given currently available information this hacking episode does not appear to be due to phpBB itself. Instead a third party application looks to have been the problem. Other sites were attacked at the same time as www.phpbb.com by the same group displaying the same information and in these cases the same third party application has been suggested as the common factor (thus far).

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Please read entire pages before screaming "The Sky is falling". As it states on the phpbb.com site

this hacking episode does not appear to be due to phpBB itself

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Just because they were one of the victims does mean it was an issue with their software, Also as noted on the site by

Other sites were attacked at the same time as www.phpbb.com by the same group displaying the same information and in these cases the same third party application has been suggested as the common factor (thus far).